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IAP 2013 Activities by Sponsor - Geographic Information Systems Lab

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App Inventor

Jennie Murack

Jan/29 Tue 10:00AM-12:00PM GIS Lab, 7-238, bring your laptop and Android phone
Jan/30 Wed 01:00PM-03:00PM GIS Lab, 7-238, bring your laptop and Android phone

Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Limited to 6 participants
Attendance: Repeating event, particpants welcome at any session
Prereq: Participants need an Android phone and Google account.

This is a hands-on workshop for developing Android Apps for collecting geographic information and storing it on Google Fusion tables. No programming experience is required. App Inventor lets non programmers develop apps using block programming with an intuitive visual interface. App Inventor gives you access to the sensors on your phone, including the GPS, compass, and accelerometer. This will be the same workshop offered twice. You only need to register for one workshop.

Prerequisites: Participants need a Google account, an Android phone, and a laptop computer and must install App Inventor software on their computer (instructions will be sent prior to the workshop).

Location: GIS Lab, 3rd floor of Rotch Library, 7-238

To register for the session on Tuesday, 1/29, click here: http://libcal.mit.edu/event.php?id=181519

To register for the session on Wednesday, 1/30, click here: http://libcal.mit.edu/event.php?id=217516

Sponsor(s): Geographic Information Systems Lab, Libraries
Contact: Jennie Murack, 7-238, 617 258-6680, MURACK@MIT.EDU


Elevation and Hydrography Data

Jennie Murack

Jan/28 Mon 01:00PM-03:00PM 14N-132

Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Limited to 22 participants
Prereq: A basic knowledge of ArcMap

Learn to read a topographic map and learn how to use a digital elevation model to create contour lines and do hydrographic analysis. 

Prerequisite: Parcipants should take the Introducation to GIS workshop or have previous experience using ArcGIS.

Register here: http://libcal.mit.edu/event.php?id=176649

Sponsor(s): Geographic Information Systems Lab, Libraries
Contact: Jennie Murack, 7-238, 617 258-6680, MURACK@MIT.EDU


Energy Information: Maps and Data to use with GIS

Jennie Murack

Jan/22 Tue 03:00PM-04:00PM 14N-132

Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Limited to 40 participants

Where are the power plants and pipelines? How close are they to population centers? In this session, MIT GIS Services will introduce you to energy maps and spatial data available and demonstrate GIS in action on the energy front.

Register here: http://libcal.mit.edu/event.php?id=176640

Sponsor(s): Geographic Information Systems Lab, Libraries
Contact: Jennie Murack, 7-238, 617 258-6680, MURACK@MIT.EDU


GIS Level 2

Jennie Murack

Jan/25 Fri 01:00PM-04:00PM 14N-132

Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Limited to 22 participants
Prereq: A basic knowledge of ArcMap

Expand your experience with GIS software and learn how to create and edit GIS files, geocode addresses onto a map, re-project data, and use tools like Clip, Buffer, and Spatial Join.

Prerequisite: Participants should have taken the Introduction to GIS workshop or have previous experience using ArcGIS.

Register here: http://libcal.mit.edu/event.php?id=176648

Sponsor(s): Geographic Information Systems Lab, Libraries
Contact: Jennie Murack, 7-238, 617 258-6680, MURACK@MIT.EDU


Integrating Map APIs into your website and Using Google Fusion Tables

Jennie Murack

Jan/25 Fri 09:30AM-12:30PM 14N-132, bring your laptop

Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Limited to 40 participants

This session offers a hands-on opportunity for integrating online maps into your website, from both Google Maps and OpenStreetMap and using Google Fusion Tables. Google Fusion Tables is a modern data management web application that makes it easy to host, manage, collaborate, and publish data tables online. Together, they make a powerful mapping platform, allowing people to easily upload data, and publish it on a map. Students will make a Google Map from scratch, including KML files (points, lines and polygons) developed in ArcGIS, and points included in easily edited XML files. We will also talk about interacting with the map through HTML widgets. Some familiarity with HTML, XML, and any modern programming language will make this workshop easier, but is not required. You will be working in Javascript but will largely be copying lines of Javascript rather than writing original code.

Register here: http://libcal.mit.edu/event.php?id=176647

Note: Bring your own laptop if you have one.

Sponsor(s): Geographic Information Systems Lab, Libraries
Contact: Jennie Murack, 7-238, 617 258-6680, MURACK@MIT.EDU


Introduction to GIS

Jennie Murack

Jan/15 Tue 01:00PM-04:00PM 14N-132
Jan/23 Wed 01:00PM-04:00PM 14N-132

Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Limited to 22 participants
Attendance: Repeating event, particpants welcome at any session

Learn the basics of visualizing and analyzing geographic information and creating your own maps in a Geographic Information System (GIS). We will introduce open source and proprietary GIS software options and let attendees choose to work through exercises using ESRI ArcGIS (proprietary) and/or Quantum GIS (QGIS) (open source). Learn to work with data from the MIT Geodata Repository, analyze the data, and create maps that can be used in reports and presentations.

For January 15th, Register here: http://libcal.mit.edu/event.php?id=176637

For January 23rd, Register here: http://libcal.mit.edu/event.php?id=176639

Note, this is the same workshop offered twice. Only register for one workshop.

Sponsor(s): Geographic Information Systems Lab, Libraries
Contact: Jennie Murack, 7-238, 617 258-6680, MURACK@MIT.EDU


Putting interactive maps on the web using OpenLayers

Jennie Murack

Jan/30 Wed 10:00AM-12:00PM GIS Lab, 7-238

Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Limited to 6 participants
Prereq: A basic understanding of HTML and Javascript

OpenLayers is an open source, full-featured Javascript library for web mapping. In this hands-on workshop we'll go over the fundamentals of the OpenLayers API and highlight some of the functionality available. We'll work through some examples of creating a map on a web page and adding data and interactivity. 

Prerequisites: You should have a basic understanding of HTML and Javascript.

Register here: http://libcal.mit.edu/event.php?id=194518

Sponsor(s): Geographic Information Systems Lab, Libraries
Contact: Jennie Murack, 7-238, 617 258-6680, MURACK@MIT.EDU


Python Programming in ArcGIS: an introduction to scripting for geographic analysis systems

Jennie Murack

Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Limited to 6 participants
Attendance: Participants must attend all sessions

Scripting in Python is an efficient method of automating analysis in ArcGIS.This workshop involves writing programs using the Python language and ArcObjects.

Dates: 1/31/2013 9:30am-12:30pm AND 2/1/2013 9:30am-12:30pm. Particpants must attend sessions on BOTH days. The link below will register you for both days, even though only the date of the first session is listed on the registration form.

Prerequisites: An understanding of programming concepts is useful; an intermediate knowledge of ArcGIS is very helpful. You may bring your own data for analysis.

Participants may bring their own laptop computer with Arcgis 10.1 and Python 2.7 installed or use the GIS Lab computers.

Location: GIS Lab, 3rd floor of Rotch Library, 7-238

Register here: http://libcal.mit.edu/event.php?id=181506

Sponsor(s): Geographic Information Systems Lab, Libraries
Contact: Jennie Murack, 7-238, 617 258-6680, MURACK@MIT.EDU


Python for GIS: Day 1

Jan/31 Thu 09:30AM-12:30PM GIS Lab, 7-238

Daniel Sheehan


Python for GIS: Day 2

Feb/01 Fri 09:30AM-12:30PM GIS Lab, 7-238

Daniel Sheehan


Spatial Statistics: Looking for spatial patterns in your data

Jennie Murack, Geospatial Data Librarian

Jan/17 Thu 01:00PM-03:00PM 14N-132

Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Limited to 22 participants
Prereq: a basic knowledge of ArcMap

How do you begin to examine your data? This workshop will teach you how to use the ArcMap Geostatistical Analyst tools, ArcMap spatial statistics tools, and Geoda to examine data frequencies, normality, outliers, and trends. We will also conduct basic descriptive statistics, such as the mean, median, and standard deviation. At the end of this workshop, you’ll have a better idea about what tools you should use for further analysis.

Prerequisites: A basic knowledge of ArcMap, including how to load data and a familiarity with the interface. Registration required.

Register here: http://libcal.mit.edu/event.php?id=176638

Sponsor(s): Geographic Information Systems Lab, Libraries
Contact: Jennie Murack, 7-238, 617 258-6680, MURACK@MIT.EDU


Spatial Statistics: Regression

Jennie Murack

Jan/29 Tue 01:00PM-03:00PM 14N-132

Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Limited to 22 participants
Prereq: A basic knowledge of ArcMap

In this workshop you’ll learn how to apply the principles of regression analysis to spatial data. Find out how to discover the relationship of predictors to your variable of interest. We’ll use both ArcMap and Geoda.

Prerequisites: A basic knowledge of ArcMap, including how to load data and a familiarity with the interface.

Register here: http://libcal.mit.edu/event.php?id=176651

Sponsor(s): Geographic Information Systems Lab, Libraries
Contact: Jennie Murack, 7-238, 617 258-6680, MURACK@MIT.EDU


Spatial Statistics: Spatial Autocorrelation

Jennie Murack

Jan/24 Thu 01:00PM-03:00PM 14N-132

Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Limited to 22 participants
Prereq: A basic knowledge of ArcMap

Are there clusters in your data? Are similar values grouped together? What about outliers? This workshop will introduce you to spatial autocorrelation, a statistical technique that helps you identify patterns of similar and different values in your data. We will use both ArcMap and Geoda.

Prerequisites: A basic knowledge of ArcMap, including how to load data and a familiarity with the interface.

Register here: http://libcal.mit.edu/event.php?id=176642

Sponsor(s): Geographic Information Systems Lab, Libraries
Contact: Jennie Murack, 7-238, 617 258-6680, MURACK@MIT.EDU